Rourkela steel plant was established in ______.
1959
The question asks for the year in which the Rourkela Steel Plant was set up.
Rourkela, in Odisha, was one of three integrated steel plants sanctioned during the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61), which put strong emphasis on building a heavy-industry and public-sector base.
The Rourkela plant was established in 1959 with technical and financial collaboration from West Germany (the firms Krupp and Demag).
It was notable as India's first integrated steel plant to use the modern LD (basic oxygen) process of steel-making.
The other options do not fit: 1954 predates the plant's sanction, while 1969 and 1985 fall well after it had already begun production; its sister plants Bhilai and Durgapur also came up in the same late-1950s phase.
Hence, the correct answer is 1959.
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